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Worldwide IT outage disrupts healthcare delivery

Crowdstrike says the BSOD outage for Microsoft Windows was caused by a botched security update. It has resulted in surgical cancellations, ambulance diversions and other patient care disruptions at doctors' offices, ERs and hospitals around the globe.
By Andrea Fox
Windows "blue screen of death" on a computer monitor
Photo: Brian Fountain<br />
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